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  • Intensive Media

    Aversive Affect and Visual Culture

    de A. McCosker ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    There is something unsettling, but also powerful, in the encounter with individual and collective experiences of human suffering. Intensive Media explores the discomfort and fascination initiated by instances of pain and suffering, their 'aversive affects', as they trouble but also vitalise contemporary media environments. ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

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  • Quarantined

    Life and Death at William Head Station, 1872-1959

    de Peter Johnson ...
    Vancouver Island in the late nineteenth century was a major port of entry for people from all walks of life. But for many, the sense of hope that had sustained them through rough sea voyages came to an abrupt halt as soon as they reached land. Quarantined is the heart-wrenching true story of the thousands of forgotten people who arrived on our shores only to be felled by disease, in an era when ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • Up Front - My Autobiography - Kerry Dixon

    de Kerry Dixon ...
    Big, blond and a goal-scoring machine, Kerry Dixon delighted Chelsea and England fans during the 1980s. Yet his fall from grace, from the pinnacle of a playing career that had few equals, has been, by his own admission, spectacular.Kerry's life in recent years has been bedevilled with problems with gambling, drugs and, worst of all, a prison sentence in 2015 after he was convicted of grievous ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD

  • Why the Church?

    de Luigi Giussani ...
    Giussani begins by focusing on the Church as a community composed of people who are aware of themselves as defined by the gift of the Spirit, from which they derive a new conception of existence, the fruit of conversion. He then describes the Church's developing self-awareness of its dual elements of the human and divine. Concerned with verifying the Church's claim to embody Christ, Giussani ... Leer más

    $29.69 USD

  • American Jihad

    Islam After Malcolm X

    de Steven Barboza ...
    American Jihad is the only popular book available about the religious experience of Muslims, both black and white, in America. With over one billion faithful worldwide, and over six rnillion in the United States alone, Islam is the world's fastest-growing religion. In fact, the population of American Muslims surpasses the membership of many mainline Protestant denominations. However, the media's ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Workable Sisterhood

    The Political Journey of Stigmatized Women with HIV/AIDS

    de Michele Tracy Berger ...
    Workable Sisterhood is an empirical look at sixteen HIV-positive women who have a history of drug use, conflict with the law, or a history of working in the sex trade. What makes their experience with the HIV/AIDS virus and their political participation different from their counterparts of people with HIV? Michele Tracy Berger argues that it is the influence of a phenomenon she labels ... Leer más

    $31.69 USD

  • The Social Worlds of the Unborn

    de D. Lupton ...
    Human embryos and foetuses are highly public and contested figures. Their visual images appear across a wide range of forums. They have become commercial commodities as part of the IVF industry and are the focus of intense debates regarding concepts of personhood. This book discusses these issues, drawing on social and cultural theory and research. ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • The End of Epidemics

    The Looming Threat to Humanity and How to Stop It

    de Jonathan D. Quick, Bronwyn Fryer ...
    "Jonathan Quick offers a compelling and intensely readable plan to prevent worldwide infectious outbreaks. The End of Epidemics is essential reading for those who might be affected by a future pandemic—that is, just about everyone."—Sandeep Jauhar, bestselling author of Heart: A HistoryThe 2020 outbreak of coronavirus has terrified the world--and revealed how unprepared we are for the next ... Leer más

    $14.39 USD

  • Microbes and Other Shamanic Beings

    de César E. Giraldo Herrera ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Shamanism is commonly understood through reference to spirits and souls. However, these terms were introduced by Christian missionaries as part of the colonial effort of conversion. So, rather than trying to comprehend shamanism through medieval European concepts, this book examines it through ideas that started developing in the West after encountering Amerindian shamans. Microbes and Other ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • Diffused Religion

    Beyond Secularization

    de Roberto Cipriani ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book explores the concept of diffused religion as it is found in contemporary society, resulting from a vast process of religious socialisation that continues to pervade our cultural reality. It provides a critical engagement with a framework of non-institutional religion that is based on values largely shared in society by being diffused through primary and secondary socialisation. Cipriani ... Leer más

    $98.99 USD

  • Into Africa

    A Transnational History of Catholic Medical Missions and Social Change

    de Barbra Mann Wall ...
    ***Winner of the 2016 Lavinia Dock Award from the American Association for the History of NursingAwarded first place in the 2016 American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Award in the History and Public Policy category***The most dramatic growth of Christianity in the late twentieth century has occurred in Africa, where Catholic missions have played major roles. But these missions did more than ... Leer más

    $46.99 USD

  • Faith in the Time of AIDS

    Religion, Biopolitics and Modernity in South Africa

    de Marian Burchardt ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book describes how Christian communities in South Africa have responded to HIV/AIDS and how these responses have affected the lives HIV-positive people, youth and broader communities. Drawing on Foucault and the sociology of knowledge, it explains how religion became influential in reshaping ideas about sexuality, medicine and modernity. ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD